The Witzard

"SUNNY & SHARY Beach Umbrella Rental" (Artist Unknown) Chris Shary is a Descendents/ALL -affiliated artist, drama teacher, father, husband, dork, and self-described "Grade "A" [Certified] smarta$$." Shary has been scribblin' pictures of mostly Punk bands ever since 1988 and had a short-lived music career himself; making records with his own bands, Evel Knievel Rice, Pilot Car , and Sizewell , as well as performing back-up vocals on 7Seconds' Leave A Light On and Down By Law 's Blue. While most well-known for his work with Descendents/ALL , Chris Shary has created album artwork, T-shirts, concert flyers, etc. for blink-182 , The Dead Milkmen, The Dickies , FIELD DAY (ex-Dag Nasty,) The Germs , Good Riddance, The Queers , Redd Kross, Rise Against , and Teenage Bottlerockets. Chris Shary designed the artwork for Descendents' Cool to Be You, Hypercaffium Spazzinate, SpazzHazard 12-inch EP, and and "Feel This" 7-inch flexi...

Many of our trusty readers/music "nerds" may well know Jonah Ray from either Mystery Science Theater 3,000 (MST3K) or The Nerdist Podcast or even his band, Pressers with Cody Votolato from The Blood Brothers/King Krule and Denver Dalley from Desaparecidos/Har Mar Superstar. Come to find out, Jonah is, also, a member of the esteemed Hawaiian Punk scene, which I didn't even know existed until writing this very sentence! Now, Jonah Ray has joined forces with Mike Park & Asian Man Records for his first ever solo musical release, You Can't Call Me Al . It's a collection of five "Weird" Al Yankovic classics paired with original music, in the vein of said Hawaiian Punk scene; "the result is a crazy mish-mash of Atom & His Package meets Jeff Rosenstock meets Weezer meets warmed hearts," reads an on-site Asian Man Records product description. Jonah Ray 's You Can't Call Me Al EP will feature charismatically Punk-ified rend...